"Richard Querin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > After reading it all I'm wondering if maybe a templating system like > Cheetah might be the way to go for us.
For a simple CMS a templating system like Kid or Cheetah are probably all you need. If you want to include dynamic content add CherryPy or similar to translate HTTP requests into Python method calls. Finally if you use a database then look at an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) such as Alchemy. And if you need all three opt for TurboGears(which is simply a packaging of Kid, CherryPy and Alchemy) or Django (which is a more homogenous whole) But having looked at several web frameworks, including non-Python ones they are all pretty much tackling those three areas: 1) Mapping HTTP requests to functions/methods 2) Template systems to decouple application and presentation 3) An OOP link to a database In short, it won't make much difference which you use if your needs are basic and conventional. > reading and exploring. I'd love to learn something like Django but > like it has been said, that's really a framework you'd use to build > a > CMS. I disagree, Django is a system to make building web sites easy. A CMS manages content on a web site and includes all sorts of features that Django doesn't and most folks don't need unless they have thousands of pages and need to allow non technical users to dynamically add new pages without coding. Products like Zope and BroadVision (a commercial alternative) are CMS capable of managing sites like Amazon or Expedia, but most small web sites with only a few dozen pages get by with simple templates. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
